Eccho Rights Highlights Dramas & Entertainment

STOCKHOLM: Eccho Rights is presenting a slate at MIPCOM that includes entertainment formats such as Jobs without Frontiers and Exit as well as fiction in the form of the drama Karadayi and more.

In its entertainment catalogue, Eccho Rights is highlighting Jobs without Frontiers, a factual-entertainment series from Belgium producers Sputnik Media. The series watches as four colleagues travel to the other side of the world on a mission to carry out their job for one week in a completely new environment. From the Japanese game-show specialists NTV comes Exit, which features room-escape challenges. Another prime-time game show from Japan is the NTV-produced Ultimate Brain, which sees the nation’s smartest people trying to solve puzzling questions. There’s also a brand-new challenge-based game show from France TV, Who’s Got the Money. In it, 12 people line up in front of the “the profile” clutching suitcases, some contain money and some contain nothing. The profiler must eliminate those without the money through a series of extreme challenges designed to uncover the empty suitcases.

For fiction offerings, Eccho Rights has another drama from the Turkish outfit Ay Yapim, Karadayi. Also from Ay Yapim is The End, which is already licensed in the U.S. and Russia. From Duka Film comes Mahmut and Meryem, a big-budget Turkish drama. There’s also comedy in the catalogue, including Condominium from Hidalgo in Bulgaria. Eccho Rights is also bringing back Ay Yapim’s successful drama Ezel. The series has already sold to more than 70 countries.

Fredrik af Malmborg, the managing director at Eccho Rights, said, “By working with independent production companies from around the world we can offer buyers the cream of international formats and incredibly successful drama series.”